This is a fair point. If what it takes is "The Last pAirBenders" to get kids interested in science and tear 'em away from the latest Call of Duty for five minutes, I can support that.

This being said, my own teenage daughter thought the pic of the dunes on the comet was very cool, even without someone using the Force to sculpt them, so it's not quite THAT dry.

I love mind-stretching stuff, but the purpose is a little confusing in this. The science in visiting a comet and discovering sand dunes is damned great. (reference: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/10/scientists-discover-that-comet-stinks-and-has-dunes-just-like-earth ) But this little film buries that in the equivalent of master/apprentice wizardry and magic.

Yeah, yeah, effects were superb, and per Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", and the story was meant to be noble. Got that.

But this still put me off a touch because it muddied the waters. Cool science is cool without CGI, and this went a bit too far down that lane.

And here ya'll probably thought while reading DUNE that the spice Melange was fictional.

The Spice must flow!!

miniseries was pretty good I thought. captured dune way more accurately than lynch's version

that said....BI-LA KAIFA MUTHAFUCKAS!

Here's a doc about the first attempt at making Dune...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jodorowskys_dune/trailer/

It was very interesting, but it seemed that Jodorowsky was in over his head. Amazing vision, but not practical enough to pull it off.

Is Dune "classical literature" now?

It is a great book, but it was only published a few years ago FIFTY YEARS AGO!!?!? Holy shit, that makes me feel old!

As much as like David Lynch, his 1984 Dune was a hot mess.

I read this book 3 times in a row back in the day, felt like a new book each time. <3 Dune. Fuck the movies and the sequels tho

Finally got to see this last night. Wow Jodoworsky's movies are super super trippy and apparently he took a lot of liberties with the story. He even jokes about raping Frank Herbert.

It kinda bums me out that if he had made the movie...I suspect I wouldn't like it.

I saw Lynch's Dune as a kid and I absolutely loved it....so it was really interesting to hear Jodoworsky thought it was horrible. It kinda reminds me of how when the Sci Fi Miniseries was announced, I finally resolved to read the novel and I was blown away how different it was from Lynch's Dune and how the miniseries was closer to the books. So I went through this phase where I absolutely hated Lynch's Dune too...but I got over it.

I thought the New Mexico anomaly was discovered to be due to the shifting sand dunes near there, or was that another area in the southwest?

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*geek

Now, I feel like playing Dune 2!

Not following the advice of the Bible: never argue with an idiot, it is hard to tell who the idiot is: hoping there is someone here who is more interested in the truth than an ideology, (yeah agnosticism and atheism are ideologies), as well as Christianity. I wise man will hear council and rebuke.
Seriously, I hesitate to say this because it screams out so obviously: this is such a ridiculous argument based on probably an underlying wound from Christianity, or more likely a poor Christian role model. It is designed and constructed on emotion and inflammatory to Christians, so we get so mad we cannot think straight and give a good answer. So let me explain why his founding presumptions are wrong:
He states: Any God that allows such suffering of Children and parents is either impotent or evil.
Really? You can’t think of any other possibilities? How about freedom is more important than suffering? Foremost in the Bible we are all free moral agents. God will not step over this except in exceptionally rare instances. I have the freedom to do good or evil. If I choose to pull out a gun and kill a person, good or evil, that person will die. There are consequences of actions and mitigating consequences frequently leads to a reoccurrence of the action. I am not saying a baby dyeing of malaria is a result of someone’s action but how we (human race) grows is by learning most often by mistakes and pain and suffering. Pain and suffering is what life is all about.
How about looking at the long term consequences over the short term? This is a common mistake made among liberals. It should have been written in scripture no pain no gain. Are you going to say you should avoid the short term pain of a needle to inoculate malaria? The short term pain nets a good result in the end. I know this is a stretch but nobody knows the results of all the suffering going on in the world but as for me I trust God does and is working on us the best way. I like to look at the whole planet and all the living organisms as one thing God is working on. He is out for our best. I can tell you this, there is a purpose for everything, despite the fact that we can perceive it, comprehend it or like it.
You should read the whole series Dune by Frank Herbert, I won’t spoil it for you but the series looks at the Human race in a similar perspective.
I could go on and on but I have to work. I hope this offends.

so I'm just going to own up to my SC2 newbishness. why did Dune quit?

he only had a probe or 2 to kill and he would have had free reign on the last nexus. It would have been insanely hard for Necros to mine anything wouldn't it?

"Landed a friggin' Mini Copper on Mars!" That's what got me. I'd LOVE To land my Mini on Mars and take her out for a spin on the dunes!